Any tips to diagnose inconsistent Wi-Fi Performance?

[Astroflash]

Does anyone have any tips to diagnose inconsistent Wi-Fi speeds, assuming no overlapping channels and good signal strength? Sometimes I'll get 300-400meg on Wifi and other times 500. However I will always test 500 on wired. Have tried 20/40/80/160Mhz bands and each is consecutively faster but only sometimes will the higher bands reach the full 500. Setup is 5ghz AX, -50dbm signal strength. Anything I can do?

[Noble3212]

4 minutes ago, Astroflash said:

Does anyone have any tips to diagnose inconsistent Wi-Fi speeds, assuming no overlapping channels and good signal strength? Sometimes I'll get 300-400meg on Wifi and other times 500. However I will always test 500 on wired. Have tried 20/40/80/160Mhz bands and each is consecutively faster but only sometimes will the higher bands reach the full 500. Setup is 5ghz AX, -50dbm signal strength. Anything I can do?

Have you at least tried leaving the setting on auto so it choses the best? And are you close to your router? AKA have full bars when connected to wifi. That's my only idea so far until I have more info. Unless you bought a cheap router for WIFI or cheap Wi-Fi card

[Zando_]

Not that I know of, wifi is just inconsistent like that. Bouncing waves through the air is very susceptible to anything being in the same air, especially metal. Wires/vents in your roof, ceiling fan, anything in the walls, hell furniture in the lounge can mess with wireless signals, orientation of your device's antennae vs the router's, etc. WiFi for convenience, hardwired for optimal speed/latency. 

[SpookyCitrus]

That is just how WiFi works. That is why if at all possible running hardwired is recommended over wireless. 

[Astroflash]

34 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

Not that I know of, wifi is just inconsistent like that. Bouncing waves through the air is very susceptible to anything being in the same air, especially metal. Wires/vents in your roof, ceiling fan, anything in the walls, hell furniture in the lounge can mess with wireless signals, orientation of your device's antennae vs the router's, etc. WiFi for convenience, hardwired for optimal speed/latency. 

Yeah it's just slightly weird because the setup doesn't change (distance and location from router) but seeing huge discrepancies in speed.

[Noble3212]

Just now, Astroflash said:

Yeah it's just slightly weird because the setup doesn't change (distance and location from router) but seeing huge discrepancies in speed.

Another idea I have is to use a extension for the WIFI card. If you have the ability to attach one of those dongles to the WIFI card maybe it would improve the connection performance? I have no idea what your setup looks like. But this is just my Idea  

[Astroflash]

13 minutes ago, Noble3212 said:

Another idea I have is to use a extension for the WIFI card. If you have the ability to attach one of those dongles to the WIFI card maybe it would improve the connection performance? I have no idea what your setup looks like. But this is just my Idea  

Yeah that what I already do.. I have an Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201 receiver on my desktop and a TP-Link RE700X extender in AP mode. (ethernet to extender -> wifi to machine)

[Noble3212]

HMMMMMMM, Wifi 6e card upgrade? 

[dilpickle]

3 hours ago, Astroflash said:

Sometimes I'll get 300-400meg on Wifi and other times 500.

You're complaining about 300mbps wifi? That's perfectly normal variation on any wireless system.